Probably too expensive

Hey, I think knowing how to rig helps a lot in understanding the mechanics and limitations of the controllers, I'm not too technical with it as some of the full-time technical artists but you essentially should know a little bit of the ins and out of your rig character file. And also, this is important, it helps you, ask the right questions and give out request to the technical artist when animating, specially when things doesn't work out the way you wanted (basically a review of the character, what it can and can't do, knowing how to rig even at basic at least helps tremendously). I don't have any specific link on rigging tutorial, but there's a ton here on youtube. Just start with the simplest one so you can get a feel on how they work. Edit: this mostly helpful in game dev btw.

It's posted in the description , you can just google search them, sorry if this is the best I can do, KZbin's asking me to do another verification stuff before I 'm allowed to post links and I'm too lazy to do that :)

I think somewhere between i5 to i7 in terms of processor and a decent enough GPU will do, also around 32gb of ram? I'm not too sure about this. It actually depends on how "heavy" the model is in terms of demand on your PC, higher textures, complex rigging, etc.

Yes, all of them are free. It's in the description, you can just search them :)

I found it amazing

I use Maya!

I rendered them out with a ground plane that I scaled up until the borders is not seen. Then I made a render pass for just the shadow matte and just the reflection (the character is there only to cast shadow and for the reflection (separate render layer for both), but the character is not being rendered out). In comp, I added those two passes as multiply for the shadows and linear light for the reflection pass.

I animated the hair and other accessories on both Link and Raphael (last two scenes) which takes up so much time so for the rest of them, it's tool assisted, you still need to guide the flow so it doesn't collide with the mesh.

@@abrey84 That's very impressive on animating their hair. You say tool assisted. Are you able to say what type of tool, or maybe there's a video on what you did? I feel like is would help me make my hair animations more efficient.

@ninam3136 i think the name is "overlappy", it's a lot similar to the other plug in "overlapper" which has a video here on KZbin.

@@abrey84 thank you very much! I will check it out